Drawing Marathon

Student Learning Outcomes, Goals, Objectives:

Students successfully completing this course will be able to:

• The goal of the course is to form a deeper relationship to drawing’s fundamental role of expanding visual possibilities within one’s practice.
• Students will expand upon their own subject matter through various formal and conceptual strategies including drawing from observation, invention, and various other strategies and prompts.
• Students will investigate drawing as an activity in which intention, intuition, materiality and process can be valid starting points.
• This course is offered to initiate a higher level of engagement, commitment and rigor through making, while critiquing work through various objective and subjective lenses.
• Students will also strengthen their analytical and conceptual language around visual work.

Course Grading Information:

Activity/Performance Measure	Percentage/Points
Week 1: Attendance and full participation	25%
Week 2: Attendance and full participation	25%
Week 3: Attendance and full participation	25%
Week 4: Attendance and full participation	25%

Attendance/Participation:

Missing one day will automatically result in a ‘B’, and missing two days will result in failing the class.

Participation means being prepared, fully engaged, and communicative in each class.

Course Materials Purchased by the Students:

Students will be expected to have on hand a variety of wet and dry drawing media and grounds of all sizes that they consider an extension of their practice or are curious about.

Faculty may recommend particular mediums or sizes.